On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:54 -0400, mroselinux@eastgranby.k12.ct.us wrote:
We have a FC3 server running samba, dhcpd, and named (for internal names only). Each night, a backup server to the primary runs rsync to download changed/new files.
This is a vacation week at our high school and I tried our backup plan for the first time since upgrading to FC3. When bringing up the backup server as primary, I ran into a security problem with dhcpd (dhcpd: Can't open lease database /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases: Permission denied). I issued a setforce 0 command and restarted dhcpd and all was ok. I then again stopped dhcpd, issued a setenforce 1 command, restarted dhcpd and again all was ok.
So, should I be running fixfiles each night at the end of the rsync script? Or is there a better solution that someone with expertise can suggest?
I think that the FC4/development tree includes a patch to rsync to allow preservation of extended attributes (which would include the SELinux attributes). Hence, you might try building the development rsync SRPM on FC3 and trying it there (using the -X option). You need the updated rsync on both the client and server. Naturally, you'd want to test it out somewhere other than your production machine first.